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Verse Acts 17:33. _SO PAUL DEPARTED FROM AMONG THEM._] He could not be
convicted of having done any thing contrary to the law; and, when the
assembly broke up, he was permitted to go about his own bus...
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SO PAUL DEPARTED - Seeing there was little hope of saving them. It was
not his custom to labor long in a barren field, or to preach where
there was no prospect of success....
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CHAPTER 17
_ 1. The Gospel in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1)._
2. The Gospel in Beroea (Acts 17:10).
3. Paul in Athens (Acts 17:15).
Three cities in which the Gospel is next preached are before us in
th...
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IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
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FROM AMONG THEM. out of (Greek. _ek_ App-104.) the midst of them....
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EFFECT OF ST PAUL’S SPEECH. SOME MOCKED, BUT OTHERS BELIEVED...
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_A SERMON ABOUT THE ONE TRUE GOD ACTS 17:24-34:_ In his sermon Paul
showed that the true God_ _ made the world and all things therein.
This God is Lord of heaven and earth. He gives to all life, and
b...
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ΈΞΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831)
выходить....
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IN ATHENS. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:34.
a.
The brethren from Berea go with Paul as far as Athens and take back a
command for the coming of Silas and Timothy. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:15
Acts 17:14 b
a...
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See notes on verse 32...
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So Paul departed from among them.
SO PAUL DEPARTED FROM AMONG THEM. Whether he would have opened, to
any extent, the Gospel scheme in this address, if he had not been
interrupted, or whether he re...
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19 The hill called the Areopagus (Latin, Mars' Hill), just a few steps
above the Market Place, was a most fitting forum for the folly of God
to defeat the wisdom of the world. At Rome Paul's weakness...
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SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED)
1-15. Thessalonica and Berœa.
1. Amphipolis] 32 m. W. of Philippi.
APOLLONIA] 30 m. W. of Amphipolis.
THESSALONICA] now Salonika, was the capital of the provin...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 17
PAUL AND SILAS GO TO THESSALONICA, 17:1-4
V1 Paul and Silas travelled through Amphipolis and Apollonia. They
came to Thessalonica. There was...
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οὕτως : may mean, with this scanty result, or simply, after
these events, in this state of the popular mind, with an expectation
of being heard again (Alford); “ancipiti auditorum obsequio; nullo
edit...
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THE ONE LIVING AND TRUE GOD
Acts 17:22
The gospel preacher must avail himself of any circumstance in his
surroundings that will enable him to arrest the attention of his
audience. He must meet them...
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At Thessalonica and Berea the apostle visited the synagogues, and
again in each case persecution arose from the Jews. A sentence which
fell from the lips of the leader of the mob shows with what rapid...
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Paul's Sermon on Mars Hill
The apostle began his sermon by noting that they were very religious,
worshipping idols devoted to all types of gods, even an unknown God.
Paul seized upon their recognitio...
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PAUL AT ATHENS
16-33. While Timothy and Silas prosecute the work in the upper
country, Paul and Luke spend the time at Athens, the world's grand
emporium of science, literature, philosophy, and idolat...
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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of
Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. (23)
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar wit...
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We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the
apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the
Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
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In the last case it was the power exercised by the enemy over the
passions of the Gentiles that caused the persecution of the apostles:
at Thessalonica we again find the old and universal enmity of th...
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SO PAUL DEPARTED FROM AMONG THEM. As it was high time, when they fell
to deriding and scoffing at him; for hereby they judged themselves
unworthy of the Gospel ministry: the Ethiopic version adds, "fr...
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So Paul departed from among them.
Ver. 33. _So Paul departed_] They said they would hear him again at
better leisure εις αυριον τα σπουδαια, as that
trifler said), but they never had another opportun...
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_So Paul departed from among them_ Leaving his hearers divided in
their judgment, and the generality of them in that deplorable state of
ignorance, folly, and superstition, in which he found them; bei...
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The conclusion of Paul and the effect of his sermon:...
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From Philippi Paul and his company travelled westward in Greece to
Thessalonica (also in Macedonia). A Jewish synagogue being there, they
attended this for three sabbath days, reasoning with the Jews...
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SO PAUL DEPARTED FROM AMONG THEM.
34 However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the
Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
1. While some mocked and some wante...
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"Thus Paul went out from among them. But certain men clave unto him,
and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and. woman
named Damaris, and others with them"But certain men clave un...
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32-34 The apostle was treated with more outward civility at Athens
than in some other places; but none more despised his doctrine, or
treated it with more indifference. Of all subjects, that which
des...
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Leaving what he had said to God's blessing and their consideration....
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Acts 17:33 So G2532 G3779 Paul G3972 departed G1831 (G5627) from G1537
among G3319 them G846...
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EFFECTIVE MINISTRY IN ATHENS (17:15-34).
His Berean guides saw Paul safely to Athens. This had not been where
he was originally aiming for. After Thessalonica his intention had
probably been to proce...
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Acts 17:33. SO PAUL DEPARTED FROM AMONG THEM. We never hear of his
visiting Athens again, nor does he ever in any of his subsequently
written letters make mention of the beautiful idol city. Meyer
sug...
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THUS PAUL WENT OUT FROM AMONG THEM
(ουτως ο Παυλος εξηλθεν εκ μεσου
αυτων). No further questions, no effort to arrest him, no further
ridicule. He walked out never to return to Athens. Had he faile...
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CONTENTS: Founding of church at Thessalonica and the Jewish
opposition. Paul and Silas at Berea. Paul at Athens and the sermon
from Mars' hill.
CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Silas, Jason, Caesar, philoso...
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Acts 17:1. _When they had passed through Amphipolis._ Boiste adds the
Roman name _Emboli._ It was built by Simon, the Athenian commander. It
stood on an island formed in the river Strymon, and was cal...
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SOME OF THEM MADE FUN OF HIM. Many want to believe that death "ends it
all." Some wanted to hear him talk about this again. This does not
show any great interest, and Athens does not seem to have been...
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_And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athena _
PAUL AT ATHENS
I. The place which the apostle visited. Athens.
II. The feelings of which he was the subject. Not of admiration at the
masterp...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:22 Paul’s Areopagus address is the prime
example in Acts 1:1 of preaching to Gentiles who have no knowledge of
the OT.
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 17:22. TOO SUPERSTITIONS.—Somewhat superstitious (R.V.);
better, _more god-fearing_, more religious (_sc._, than
others)—_i.e._, unusually religious; though the word has both...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 17:1
AMPHIPOLIS. This was the ancient capital of that division of
Macedonia (Macedonia Prima); see Acts 16:12, note. It was situated on
the Via Egnatia, thirty-four miles southwest f...
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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came
to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews (Acts 17:1):
Now Luke passes that off in one verse. From Philippi to Amph...
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So Paul departed — Leaving his hearers divided in their judgment....